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I was amazed Nicholls paid that free. He’s got history with Port, most recently the game against Hawthorn. When I saw his name during the week I went into meltdown. He’s absolutely the worst umpire in the league.

Premiership Player

I am surprised that there isn’t a mention of Stephen McBurney in this thread. Very biased and definitely wears his white and blue hooped undies in every game he officiates in. Give me Nicholls and Stevic anyday over that fool.

All Australian

I'm not blaming him for our loss. We kicked ourselves out of the game.

However, the public have the right view games of football that are officiated impartially and correctly. He needs to go for the good of the game. If anyone knows how to lodge formal complaints against umpires, let's get the ball rolling.

Brownlow Medallist

I'm not blaming him for our loss. We kicked ourselves out of the game.

However, the public have the right view games of football that are officiated impartially and correctly. He needs to go for the good of the game. If anyone knows how to lodge formal complaints against umpires, let's get the ball rolling.

This is the muppet that watched and completely ignored Franklin being held and restricted from running in a one on one contest with the ball 15 metres away. He also watched as Hewitt was taken high twice in the space of 3 seconds and ignored both despite a clear line of sight. On at least 5 other occasions he had a clear line of sight to pay obvious frees and made a choice not to pay it. This campaigner has had it in for us for years.

Club Legend

He was the umpire with ball in hand that went ahead and bounced the ball to continue play well after the final siren had been heard by a lot of players out on the ground in that St Kilda vs Fremantle debacle finish in Tasmania back in 2006.

Team Captain

Seriously. He flat out gets the game wrong. Pays the very shifty ones, doesn't pay the obvious. Will pull out a technical free kick but when someone is dead to rights for marking infringement, throwing or HTB he'll put the whistle away. Just unreal how he still manages to actually get a gig.

Disagree on the Lewis one. Lewis was down low and almost stationary when he was run into front on. The rule was meant to be about players coming in and actively diving into another player's legs while the other player is trying to pick it up, not about players running hard at a near stationary player who is trying to pick it up and intentionally tripping over them to get a free.

I think they've been calling that wrongly lots this year and it's encouraging players to come in late and lead dangerously with the knees rather than properly contest.